"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards," Kierkegaard has written. Martin Amis, in his quirky novel Time’s Arrow, reverses the dictum—he presents a life lived backwards, but capable of comprehension only when viewed forwards.
A life told backwards possesses a strange, unexpected coherency. And here is the strangest part: it …
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